Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 3 wins & 8 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
A voluptuously shot horror movie.
– Michael Wilmington,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Oct 2013
fresh:
More superpowers from Brian De Palma, this time in high school, in a screen version of a Stephen King novel that's become a horror classic.
– Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal,
4 Jun 2011
fresh:
An exercise in high style that even the most unredeemably rational among moviegoers should find enormously enjoyable.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
13 Oct 2008
fresh:
Carrie is a modest but effective shock-suspense drama about a pubescent girl, her evangelical mother and cruel schoolmates.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
7 Oct 2008
rotten:
This 1976 thriller, about a high school outcast (Sissy Spacek) who uses her telekinetic powers to massacre the graduating class, contains a number of interesting ideas. But as with most of his films, De Palma can't keep track of them.